Individuality and modernity in Berlin [electronic resource] : self and society from Weimar to the Wall / Moritz Föllmer.
Föllmer, Moritz.
2013
DD866 .F59 2013
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Title Individuality and modernity in Berlin [electronic resource] : self and society from Weimar to the Wall / Moritz Föllmer.
Author Föllmer, Moritz.
ISBN 9781107030985
9781139612944 (electronic book)
Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description ix, 312 p. : ill., map.
Call Number DD866 .F59 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 943/.155087
Summary "Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true under all five regimes of the period, through economic depression, war, occupation and reconstruction. The quest for individuality could put democracy under pressure, as in the Weimar years, and could be satisfied by a dictatorship, as was the case in the Third Reich. It was only in the course of the 1950s, when liberal democracy was able to offer superior opportunities for consumerism, that individuality finally claimed the mantle. Individuality and Modernity in Berlin proposes a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Berlin that will engage readers with an interest in the German metropolis as well as European urban history more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Series New studies in European history
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction
Part I. Weimar Berlin
Risk, isolation and unstable selfhood
Flexibility, authenticity and consumption
Reform, scandal and extremism
Part II. Nazi Berlin
Redefining legitimate individuality
Jewish Berliners' ambiguous quest for agency
Heroism, withdrawal and privatist loyalty
Part III. Post-War and Cold-War Berlin
Defeat, self-help and the dissociation from Nazism
Socialist ambitions and individualist expectations
Anti-totalitarianism, domesticity and ambivalent modernity
Conclusion.

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